professional learning communities

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING…WHAT?

THE PURPOSE AND GOAL OF A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY

BY THE END OF TODAY WE WILL….

• Look at our WHY, WHAT and HOW

• Understand that we are a community that works together to achieve a common goal.

Why are you here?

What do you do?

How do you do it?

Why are we here?

What steps do we need to make to accomplish that??

How do we become better?

PUZZLE

• What are we doing as a community to measure and improve student learning?

• How do we assess the effectiveness of student learning?

STUDENT LEARNING IS THE BIG PICTURE

WE CAN’T DO THIS IN ISOLATION..

WORKING AS A COMMUNITY TO MEASURE AND IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING…

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17

THE GLUE THAT HOLDS IT ALL TOGETHER…

PLCs

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TENTATIVE PLC TIMELINE

September/October 2014

Introduce PLCs – Why?

November 2014

•How? How is a PLC run?

November 2014

•How? How is a PLC run?

January 2015

•How? Model a PLC in action

February 2015

•Data Use Conference – collecting and using data

March 2015

•Special Education Conference –differentiation and accommodations

April 2015

•What? Assessment/Scoring student work using Exemplars/Rubrics –

How do we know when students have learned the

material?

May 2015

•What? Instructional strategies –

•What do we do for students who don’t get it? For those who do?

•Practice PLCs with data provided.

August 2015 – January 2015

PLCs formed and implemented with guidance

February 2015

•PLCs independently established

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES…

It’s not one more thing…. It’s HOW we do business.